My first thread in this section, but there's a time for everything. No pretty pictures (except my opening one... when I found somewhere - enjoy it), I'm afraid, since I'm not much of an artist, but I've been mulling over how to do femme characters of TF2 for a while now. I mean, as an ex-animu fan... I'd have to say it's bout near required for me to consider this in just about every fandom I'm in.

So, I see that most people tend to make gender-bended characters either the same nationality\race\(general) personality as their predecessor. So it's basically the same character, only with... ahem, an "exquisite rack". Always nice to see other people's takes on gender-bends of the classicle classes, but not quite enough for me.

Others tend to just go with whatever nationality tickles their fancy. Like the Engineer being from India or the Heavy being from... Iunno, Chile or something. Awesome, but... A little out of my range. And I don't want to have to rely on stereotypes to the point where my characters won't even be unique anymore, because, trust me, if I go that route, that's what's bound to happen.

So what I basically decided to mix up their nationalities while tampering with their personality to suit my fancy.

I just realized that probably doesn't make sense to anyone who is residing outside of my brain, so let me off an example instead. First and foremost being my FemSoldier - the first one I thought up.

So, she's a Soldier, only she's Australian. And when I say "Australian", I mean AUSTRALIUM Australian. So, yeah, huge muscles, big, booming voice, love of combat and all things bloody, and, of course, the signature SAXTON HAAALE mustache. So, she'd basically have the same model as male Soldier - only with short blonde braids under her helmet, breasts, and a comically huge mustache.

Everyone assumes she's good friends with the original Soldier, but it's hard to tell since the two get into fist-fights as often as they're seen drinking together. But she's not quite as... nutty as him - they just share a lot of co

Fem Medic is just as nuts as the original. She likes to stuff things; anything and everything is stuff-able to her. She goes out and finds baby birds that fell out of trees too early and stuffs them in jars to see if she can replace the wings with something that should not grow on a bird. If if dies it makes a paperweight. Needless to say she has many paper weights to choose from. She doesn't really care about healing team mates in battle because they're going to just get shot in the face again in two secinds anyway. She would rather move around the battlefield snatching up gibs before respawn can detect them and whisk them away. Medic and FMedic bro out on the weekends. They sit down at the table and discuss how long they can burn a scout alive before the tongue becomes unusable for experiments.
Fem Medic is an absolute manners freak. She was not raised in a barn and how dare you behave so rudely? She doesn't listen to music often and complains when Medic warms up on his violin.

FemSpy has a horribly pock marked body. She was raised as a spoiled brat in an old money family and will throw a fit and stop her pointy little shoes in the respawn when she discovers that she has been dominated. The next thing she does is target that person for the rest of the time , taunting them. How could some common trash like you hope to keep me down? she also laughs at the other fem classes' shoes whenever she has the chance. FemSpy is the most petty vindictive bitch possible.

FemScoot gets tired of everything very easily. She can't fall in love with something for more than a day. Her teeth are perfectly straight , but full of hole from here to hell and back. She sees a lot of FMedic. FMedic hates FScoot because as soon as she turns her back to her FScoot has gotten into the scalpel collection and is using them and her freshly stuff Blu Sniper for target practice. FScoot does whatever FMedic says not because she like her, but she is too afraid of having a guy doctor poke at her.

FSniper is an animal activist. PETA stlye fur ruining, did-you-just-eat-a-ham-sandwich-i-will-murder-you type activist. She is an american but she despises America for all the fur a

I have been thinking about making a Canadian Fem!Sniper for a while now, I can see her wearing deer antlers for a hat, so a little part of me thinks if I were to actually try to put her together that she would be a bit goofy.

>>1568The face is alright and so is her torso. I agree with Perry in saying that her limbs need work. Her feet are so tiny and her legs feel like they're stubby, but that may or may not be the skirt's fault.

Also, when I look at her arms, the forearms don't quite line up with the upper arms. It's like they're not even connected. The problem happens right at the end of the sleeves, which tells me you drew the sleeves, stopped, and then drew the arms.

As a suggestion, I would say that when you draw, draw your subject without clothing first, to make sure their body is all alligned, and then draw the clothes on top. That would fix the arms (along with anatomy practise) and would also help the legs look less stumpy.

>>659Bald little cyborg is actually kind of adorable. I'm surprised. The first picture is... odd, though. Like, it's just portioned weird. I have no idea what's going on with her legs. Also, skip the wig. I think a bandana or a hardhat would fit her better.

I'll be posting sketches and stuff in here, which will most likely suck. I have awful problems with anatomy and I'm trying to get a more cartoon/realistic style. Red-lining is entirely welcome for any of these.

This is my more 'I'm just going to sketch something' cartoon style. And as usual with me, it's Pauling.

I think you're off to a good start! You put a lot of effort into the faces, it's noticeable. You should get good anatomy references at hand and sketch your heart out. Loose sketches give you a feeling for how things are put together and make it easier for you to pull things off without making a big hassle out of it.